1940-05-10 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1940.

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NORWAY TO FIGHT ON Professor Koht's Broadcast In Paris

Assurances Of Stronger Allied Cooperation

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Paris, To-day.

THERE IS NO EXCUSE for the German attack on Norway which has lived 125 years in perfect peace and neutral- ity, declared Prof. Halvdan Koht, the Norwegian For- eign Minister, in a broadcast speech to the French people last night.

Prof. Koht declared Norway's only fault was to be weak and to be of strategical interest to the Reich which had not hesitated to violate every rule of common law to make use of Scandinavia.

Prof. Koht said that despite the ter- rible sufferings brought about by the war the Norwegians were not dis- couraged and would fight for freedom" "and Democracy by the side of France

ANTI-SPY LAW

and Britain, whose final victory in the IN HOLLAND

struggle for international justice could not be doubted.

Prof. Koht declared that in London and Paris he had had a series of talks with the political and military au- thorities which convinced him the

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Amsterdam, To-day.

British and French Governments will do their best to strengthen the co-espionage law will be operation between the Allied forces in Norway and the Norwegian army.

Part Of General War

Norway, he said, was part of the general war. Now that Germany had gone outside her own frontiers she was liable to be defeated.

A victory over Germany in Norway would facilitate the general victory.

Prof. Koht said members of the Diplomatic Corps were still with the Norwegian Government in Norway.

Referring to supplies, he said the Government had taken all thé neces- sary measures and had stocked' wheat reserves for a year... Prof. Koht again said they did not wish Sweden to be submitted to the same fate, as Norway through aban- doning her neutrality-Havaš,

King And Government To Fight Till End (SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL") Paris, To-day.

The Ministry of Justice an- nounces that a second anti- sub- mitted shortly to Parliament. The law will provide for the de- portation to the colonies of persons guilty, of political actions detrimental to the well-being of the country

Meanwhile stringent measures have been taken to crush any possible move of enemy sympathisers. The military commander of west Holland has visited the principal towns in the area.

Pressmen of non-belligerent states have been invited to inspect the coastal defence of the Low Country on board the cruiser Sumatra. Havas.

JAP. WAGE

INCREASES

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL") Tokyo, To-day.

A new increase in salaries, for in- dustrial workers has been decided to offset the rise in the price of com- modities since the last fixing of the wages scale. The increase mainly

and imported commodities the supply of which has almost stopped owing to the European King Haakon had said to him: "I war and the lack of cargo accommo- am King of Norway. I shall stay here,dation. First workers to get salary and 1, shall fight here."

M. Koht, interviewed by the pressbears on foodstuffs emphasized that the King and Gov- .ernment intended to fight until the

very end...

The sixth Norwegian Division is still intact, he said, and a large number of members of the other five divisions have managed to survive attacks so far.

raises are. those in the shipbuilding, rolling stock and machine tool manu- facturing industries.-Havas.

NEW TYPE OF NAZI PLANE FORCED DOWN (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day.

In Northern Norway there are, re- serve stocks of wheat and the Nor- wegian-troops can also use stocka of munitions now on hand and those A large German plane of a type as recently imported from England. yet undetermined made a forced land- The Norweglan mercantile marine ing in a field near Bourges, in central is almost intact and is at the disposi- France, yesterday. The four members tion of the Government; the ships are of the crew were taken prisoner but now directed by an inter-Allied or first succeeded in setting fire to the ganization set up in London.Havas. plane-Havas.

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DE VALERA APPEALS FOR UNITY

Dublin, To-day.

appeal against further I.R.A. activity was made yester- day by Premier De Valera in a special broadcast.

He asked for national unity.. If the disorders continue, civil war will be the inevitable conclu- sion, weakening the national strength and making it an easy prey to any Invader-Reuter.

PRICE OF RICE IN JAPAN

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Tokyo, To-day. The Government will not raise the official price of rice, the Agriculture Minister, Mr. Toshio Shimada, told the

STOCKHOLM

COMMENT

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Stockholm, To-day.

The Commons debate showed Mr. Chamberlain's extremely difficult posi- tion but also showed that even in war- time the Democracies have preserved freedom of public expression unknown to the totalitarian

states, says the Swedish press.

Most papers forecast a reshuffle of the British Cabinet with the partici- pation of Labour representatives in the Government.

The papers also point out that the Germans are constantly-reinforcing their troops in Norway and that ener getic action is necessary before it is too late. Havas.

prefectural governors. meeting here, reports the "Yomiuri Shimbun." The paper adds it is probable the Govern- ment will give subsidies to farmers to offset any losses due to the pegging of the rice price.--Havas.

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